£355 for Glasto but opera’s elitist?
Reverse snobbery is the order of the day
Schoenberg’s morning and night
Arnold Schoenberg: Expressionist Music (Orchid)
Too measured for its own good
Lukas Foss: 1st symphony &c (Naxos)
Peers but not equals
Ferdinand Ries: Symphonies 1&2 (Ondine); Franz Clement: Solo violin works (Naxos)
Sensitivity of a high order
Sibelius and Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Decca)
Finnish on a high note
Now, how the Helsinki has this happened?
Surprise and tension
Czech Songs: Magdalena Kozena (Pentatone)
Well-behaved Beethoven
Beethoven: Triple concerto and British folksongs (Decca)
Polish strings
Grazyna Bacewicz: Symphonies 3 &4; Concerto for string orchestra (both on Chandos)
Music for a disintegrating world
Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung, Postludium (Naxos)
Free speech defenders should practice what they preach
There should be no illiberal exception for anti-Zionist academics
An actor’s story is a late career marvel
Cleverness is a virtue in itself but is never sterile or without purpose
Hoorah for winter!
Life comes alive again in October when you can start anticipating proper National Hunt racing
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The case for duelling
A Modest Proposal: If yes to assisted suicide, then why not duelling?
The 300 Years’ War
How conflict over land ownership shaped conflict over Ireland
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
In a manor of shrieking
One haunted house has an infamy above all others: McKamey Manor, in the USA
The EU is leaving Britain behind on immigration
The continent is waking up to the need for solutions, and Britain must wake up as well
Bonfire of the verities
Plotting a path through the new politics
